Goodbye to Andy

Age UK Redbridge, Barking & Havering said a sad goodbye to our Chief Executive Officer, Andy Petty, who has led the charity for 18 years. Andy has always put providing good quality services for older people at the forefront of everything we do and he will be hugely missed by staff, volunteers and colleagues, in both Statutory and Voluntary organisations locally.

Andy’s legacy of quality support and services in the three boroughs will be in safe hands as Andreea Albu, currently an Associate Director at the organisation, will be taking over the CEO role when she returns from maternity leave in early autumn.

In the meantime, the Trustees have made arrangements for Martin Hunt to be our interim CEO. Martin has worked in the field of health and social care in the NHS, housing and voluntary sector for many years and his experience will be very beneficial to us over the summer.  Martin is being supported by Marion Harper-Forrest (a retired CEO from Age UK Sutton), who will be assisting with various management duties.

We held a leaving party for Andy with staff, volunteers and stakeholders, where we had the opportunity to say goodbye and wish him well. Andy is pictured above with Betty, a former volunteer with over 20 years service!